.Production started in March 2008. Shutter Island was originally slated to be released on October 2, 2009, but Paramount pushed the release date to February 19, 2010.[3] Paramount head executive Brad Grey blamed the recent economic downturn as the main decision behind the delayed release date.^Paramount releases the film October 2.

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Plot

.In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), go to the Ashecliff Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island.^Leonardo Dicaprio - Dicaprios Shutter Island Postponed Until 2010: PHOTO Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie SHUTTER ISLAND has fallen victim to the ongoing financial crisis - its release has been pushed back until next year (10).

.They are investigating the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), a patient who vanished from a locked room.^Thriller > > > Synopsis: It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital.

Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the head psychiatrist, explains that Rachel was institutionalized after drowning her three children. She believes, however, that she is still home and that her children are still alive.

The cliffs surrounding the perimeter make it impossible for Rachel to have reached the nearby caves. Teddy sees a lighthouse but is told it has already been searched. The Marshals question the staff and learn that Rachel’s psychiatrist, Dr. Sheehan, left for vacation that morning. .Teddy asks to see the hospital’s personnel files but Cawley refuses.^"Teddy's code-breaking skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open.

.That night, Teddy has strange dreams about his wife, Dolores (Michelle Williams), who died in a fire two years before.^Michelle Williams will be portray Teddy's wife, Deloris, who appears in flashback sequences.

She tells him Rachel is still on the island, as is Andrew Laeddis, the man who started the fire.

.In the morning, they interview patients from Rachel’s group therapy sessions, one of whom passes Teddy a warning to run.^They also interview the "patients" who took group therapy with Solando on the day she disappeared--one of whom warns Teddy, cryptically, to "run."

.Teddy explains to Chuck the real reason he took the case: after being transferred to Ashecliff, Andrew Laeddis disappeared.^U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient.

.When Teddy investigated, he met a former patient who claimed that the facility was performing human experiments.^Synopsis; It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital.

Rachel is finally found near the lighthouse but she is unresponsive to Teddy’s questioning. .He eventually finds George Noyce (Jackie Earle Haley), the man who told him about the experiments.^Max Von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley join the cast of Martin Scorsese's next film.

George says that the whole situation is a game for Teddy’s benefit and that he is afraid of being taken to the lighthouse.

Teddy tries to reach the lighthouse and discovers a cave where the real Rachel Solando (Patricia Clarkson) is hiding. .She was a doctor at Ashecliff until she found out about the experiments and was committed as a patient.^But Guy has never seen a doctor about his anger—although the doctor tells police Guy is his patient.

.The doctor reveals that Teddy is actually Andrew Laeddis.^Teddy has reason to believe that Andrew Laeddis killed his wife Deloris and that he has recently been transferred to the prison/hospital and is held in the extra-high-security Ward C on the Island.

He murdered his manic depressive wife after she drowned their three children, and then created a fantasy where he was a hero to cope with the pain. He invented Rachel Solando as part of his delusion. He has been under the care of Dr. Sheehan, the man he thought was Chuck, for two years. .Sheehan and Cawley decided to try a roleplay experiment, allowing Andrew to live out his delusions in an attempt to bring him back to reality.^He has "delicate hands that seemed incongruous with the rest of him," Teddy muses, "as if he'd borrowed them until his real ones came back from the shop."

.Andrew’s memory comes back and he makes peace with his past, but later he appears to have a relapse and Cawley is forced to lobotomize him.^I look back at him and I just go, He's exactly what I said I'd never make him .

Before the surgery is performed, Andrew asks Dr. Sheehan if he thinks it would be worse to live as a monster or die as a good man, leaving it unclear whether he had a relapse or is feigning delusion in order to have a permanent escape from reality. The film ends with an ambiguous shot of the lighthouse.

Production

.Feature film rights to the 2003 novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane were first optioned to Columbia Pictures in 2003, but the rights lapsed back to the author.^The movie is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. .

.The author's representatives then sold the rights to the production company Phoenix Pictures, who hired screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the novel for film.^(UPI) -- Hollywood's Paramount Pictures said Friday it is postponing the release of Martin Scorsese 's film adaptation of the novel "Shutter Island" until next year.

The project was in development for a year. .By October 2007, the project had developed into a co-production between the studios Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures.^But bosses at movie studio Paramount Pictures have had to re-shuffle their schedule - and as a result, fans will have to wait until February next year (10) to watch...

.Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who had worked together on three films, were both attracted to Shutter Island as their next collaboration.^Sharp New -Shutter Island' Poster with Leonardo DiCaprio: PHOTO Here's the new poster for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

.Filming of the World War II flashback scenes for DiCaprio's character, a former soldier, took place in Taunton, Massachusetts.^A cast of colorful characters from an era before the start of World War 1.

[6].Scorsese filmed the scenes in old industrial buildings in Taunton's Whittenton Mills Complex to replicate Dachau, a World War II concentration camp seen in flashbacks.^According to the Boston Herald , the filmmakers have converted Whittenton Mills in Taunton into a concentration camp and filming is going on now.

[7].Extras portraying the Dachau prisoners were called back to reshoot a scene in July, because the film of one scene was damaged due to an improperly sealed film shipping container.^One insider reports to the Herald “It took off like a kite and crashed into the back of the boat, damaging the American flag,” said our spy on the scene.

All actors arrived in black Cadillac Escalades or sedans. The front landing of the hospital was built by the crew. Scenes in Doctor Cawley's office were shot on the second floor of the chapel during the late evening; lights were shone on the windows to make it look like it was daytime. The surrounding brick walls in the outside hospital scenes were actually painted plywood which served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road. .Originally, scenes were going to be shot at the old Worcester State Hospital, but the filming would have gone on during the demolition of the surrounding buildings, which was impractical.^Later this month, the abandoned Medfield State Hospital is slated for the backdrop of several hospital scenes.

No original soundtrack was written for the film. .Instead, Scorsese made use of his long time collaborator Robbie Robertson to create an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film.^Martin Scorsese's long awaited Ashcliffe with Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley is finally set to begin filming.

According to a statement on Paramount's website: "The collection of modern classical music [on the soundtrack album] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I’ve ever heard.' [Robertson stated]."[10]

Release

.The film was scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009.[14] Paramount later announced it was going to push back the release date to February 19, 2010.[15] Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having "the financing in 2009 to spend the $50 to $60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope that the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially.^Paramount releases the film October 2.

.The film premiered at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010.[17][18]Spanish distributor Manga Films will distribute the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the $6 million to $8 million range.^The film is currently shooting in Barcelona, Spain and two-time Academy Award winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Iñárritu's " Babel ") is handling the music chores.

Critical reception

The film has received mainly positive reviews. It currently holds a 67% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 215 reviews with an average rating of 6.6/10.[20] It also received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 from Metacritic based on 37 reviews from mainstream critics.[21]Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 4/4 stars claiming "After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair."[22] Writing for The Wall Street Journal, John Anderson highly praised the film suggesting it "requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. .Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates.^More than one reader may shy away from some of the novel's more wrenching scenes, and others may find the politics almost as disturbing.

.It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt."^A psychological thriller/horror flick based on a true story of murder and hauntings in the Nevada town of Goldfield.

[23].Awarding the film 3½ stars out of 4, Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times wrote in this review that "the movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity.^The movie star who strops every time he sees a camera — .

It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes."[24]

.Of The Orlando Sentinel, Roger Moore, giving the film 2½ stars out of 4, wrote "It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America’s greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even Hitchcock came up short on occasion.^Sharp New -Shutter Island' Poster with Leonardo DiCaprio: PHOTO Here's the new poster for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

See for yourself."[25] One mixed review includes Dana Stevens of Slate who described the film "an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving."[26]The Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday negatively described the film as being "weird".[27]A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote in his review that "Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself."[28]

Box office

.The film opened #1 at the box office with $41 million, according to studio estimates.^Quarantine'' from Sony Corp.'s Screen Gem's unit was second with $14.2 million, box-office tracker Media By Numbers LLC said.

.The movie gave both Scorsese and DiCaprio their best box office opening yet.^Leonardo DiCaprio showcased by Martin Scorsese " Shutter Island " is Martin Scorsese 's first film since winning an Oscar for helming best picture champ "The Departed" in 2006.

[29].On its second weekend, the film remained #1 for a second-straight weekend with $22.2 million.^(Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co.'s comedy ``Beverly Hills Chihuahua'' repeated as the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters for a second weekend, earning $17.5 million and beating out the debuts of a horror film and spy drama.

[30].As of March 16, 2010 (2010 -03-16), the film has grossed $108,809,206 in North America and $55,000,000 outside, for a total of $163,809,206 worldwide.^Frommers.com Home > Destinations > North America > USA > New England > Massachusetts > Boston > In Depth > Recommended Books & Films .